stalk-eyed fly

English

Noun

stalk-eyed fly (plural stalk-eyed flies)

  1. A fly of the family Diopsidae.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107:
      In at least one other arthropod, the Stalk-eyed fly, it is the sheer length of the stalks themselves, which can be longer than the animal's body, which make the male attractive to females.
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